An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk.
Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers..
And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.
For Swede\'s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager--a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism.
And then one day in 1968, Swede\'s beautiful American luck deserts him.
Roth\'s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father\'s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Here is Philip Roth\'s masterpiece--an elegy for the American century\'s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss.
Never before has Roth written with clear conviction.--Time.
An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingenious American berserk
